Very Plain Speaking.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3200, 9 May 1889, Page 3

Very Plain Speaking.

To au unemployed deputation at Sydney icc.-mlly, Sir Henry is reported to have said thai " he w»s compelled to in ike the unemployed understand thai Uownmenls were nut organised to lind employment for the people of the cmiiitry. In no country was tlie. i flone, Pro'wtily, if tl|i-y were i,i ' *" France, <ir England, or America, lliev would lind au equal proportion i f ill" population in Hie f e position as themselves, For instiiice, ill ihe ,sr.-at Stum of New York, not very long ago, there 100.0U0 men out of ntoiluyiuent whose'(dwrsity was just as they had described, and time were 20,000 women unemployed. No Government could find employmem for the peoole, The only business of ihe Government, and ho vass oldiged to imprei-s it on ilio represen-tatives-was to piottct society, to administer the laws, and to see that even justice was held out between . man andman. Each member in a free state was supposed to fight his own battle, and there was no othei law for the proper government of n people. Coming to the more practi cal question, he did not wish to discourage them hy theorising, because lie sympathised with them or anyone else so Mtuated. He must, however, tell them that the Govern men t would not open relief works—whatever the consequences might lie—merely to find men employment."